Tagged with: Daytime
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WPC 56: Women in policing in the 1950s
Dominique Moloney
Writer
Doing justice to the brave female officers that inspired the daytime BBC One drama, by show creator Dominique Moloney.
Pointless: How I became the co-host
Richard Osman
Producer and presenter
Richard Osman tells the story of going from "Whassisname, that bloke from that thing on BBC Two" to "Whassisname, that bloke from that thing on BBC One"
Anne Robinson says goodbye to the Weakest Link
Liam Keelan
Controller, BBC Daytime
After 11 years fronting the Weakest Link, Anne Robinson has today announced that she has decided to relinquish her title as the Queen Of Mean and step down as its presenter. You can read more about her decision to leave the show in an interview in today's Guardian. The Weakest Lin...
32 Brinkburn Street: I designed the set
Andrea Hughes
Production Designer
32 Brinkburn Street is a new BBC One daytime drama timed to coincide with the 2011 census. It is set in two time periods, 1931 and 2011, with each episode covering 24 hours. The drama follows the lives of two generations of one family who live in the same terraced house in Manchester, compa...
The Indian Doctor is returning to BBC One
Liam Keelan
Controller, BBC Daytime
A record number of you (well over 400) posted your appreciation on Sanjeev Bhaskar's post on this blog for our recent daytime drama The Indian Doctor, so I'm absolutely delighted to tell you first that I have just recommissioned it for a second series. I can also reveal that our wonderful Wo...
Land Girls: My Tiger Moth adventure
Becci Gemmell
When I read the opening of episode one of the new series of Land Girls, I was chuffed to bits with all its action, suspense and romance. The land girls are together working in the fields, a Tiger Moth flies in close over their heads and lands nearby, the pilot turns out to be John, the husban...
The Indian Doctor: Filming in a Welsh village
Sanjeev Bhaskar
The Indian Doctor is about Prem Sharma, and his wife, Kamini, who arrive in Britain in the summer of 1963. Rather than the bright lights of London, they are posted to a small Welsh mining village, taking over from the previous doctor there, who has unexpectedly passed away. There, they encou...
Moving On: Exploring a different face of addiction
Karen Brown
I can't remember exactly where I was when I had the idea for Letting Go (episode five of Moving On). I think, like lots of stories, I'd been carrying it around for a while. It was partly influenced by a group of people that I'd been working with. As a writer I do work with different communit...
The changing face of BBC Daytime: Moving On, The Indian Doctor, Land Girls and more
Liam Keelan
Controller, BBC Daytime
BBC Daytime has gone through a pretty significant shift in terms of our programmes over the last couple years, so it was interesting to read the BBC Trust's thoughts on Daytime in their Strategy Review and particularly where they think there's room for improvement. While some headlines are b...
How healthy are BBC One, Two and Four?
Jana Bennett
Director, BBC Vision
Today the BBC's governing body the BBC Trust has published its report on three of the BBC's television channels, BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four. These reports are essentially health checks done every five years to ensure that the channels are delivering the kind of programmes that audiences ...
